[iowamark]

Adapted from "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory" Copyright © 2010 by Ben Macintyre. Published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc. On sale Tuesday.

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

First disclosed in Ewen Montagu's 1953 book:

The Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counter-Intelligence Operation

[ConorMacNessa]

Read Montagu's book years ago - it's quite a story!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Bringbackthedraft]

They made a movie about it too.

[iowamark]

New Yorker review:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/10/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell

Another book on this topic due out in July:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/MilitaryHistory/WWII/?view=usa&ci=9780199233984

[Tennessee Nana]

If this is about the dead man shot out of the torpedo tube of a submarine...

There was a great movie made about it..

Cant remember who was in it...

some big names...

Richard Attenborough ???

[MuttTheHoople]

I read about it in High School. Fascinating. My favorite part was about looking for a suitable double for the photo ID. The corpse looked too dead to get a picture of him. However, at the last minute they found the exact double for the guy, got his picture taken, and the operation was able to go on.

[Robe]

HMS Seraph was the submarine which was used to deliver the body .. If your ever in Charleston SC have a look on the Citadel campus. The have the Periscope and torpedo loading hatch from the HMS Seraph. The loading hatch was actually used instead of the torpedo tubes because it was determined that the compressed air would impregnate his clothing, so they used the Loading hatch which was where the body was stored on the way to Spain.

http://www.citadel.edu/main/about/campusguide/virtualtour/monuments.html#seraph

[ETL]

Could this have been what Obama meant by “corpseman”? :)

[Grut]

IIRC, German military intelligence thought the whole thing was a fake, but Hitler bought it anyway. It’s been a long time since I read about it, though.

[SunkenCiv]

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